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The conclusion, and one of the harder hitting parts of the article. Solving poverty does not require complex solutions and long timeframes.

He mentions how angry it made him, that not only were thousands and thousands of people suffering to create luxury for a few, but that slavery wasn't even necessary for wealth to exist. That's really stuck with me.

Poverty is not an intractable problem that requires complex solutions, long timeframes and large increases in production and throughput that conflict with ecological objectives. The solution is straightforward. We need to actively plan to shift productive capacities away from capital accumulation and elite consumption in order to focus instead on the goods and services that are necessary to meet human needs and enable decent living for all, while ensuring universal access through public provisioning systems. We have framed this work around the concept of human needs, following the recent literature. However it is important to underscore that this approach is ultimately about far more than just satisfying material requirements for human well-being. Achieving decent-living for all is critical to enabling broader human capabilities, individual and collective self-realisation, full participation in society and politics and, ultimately, freedom.

A belief otherwise is fundamentally incompatible with restorative justice, because in the case of "art I find distasteful" there is no harmed party with whom to make amends. Any "justice" sought here can only be retributive, can only push you into reactionary politics.

You DID enjoy Pokemon as a child and have now grown-up, still loving them? You're a Gym Leader, or Elite, or even the Champion!

Pokemon feels like a more realistic/imperfect situation. As well as one that allows for more individualistic freedom, as well as the troubles that come with that. Its ultimatly more appealing to me because of the value it places of individual expression and growth and the means it provids to achive those things.

And the resulting "teacher of people (not just kids) in prison" talking about how much better and easier it is to be teaching "those people" than "kids these days"